Kontorlandskaber”. 2003

Installationen “Kontorlandskaber” er lavet som en del af udstillingen “Den eksotiske hverdag”, afholdt på TDC-internet i Århus N. I et ubenyttet kontor lavede jeg et plateau i højde med vinduet. På vinduet skrev jeg ting som “det fjerne (pil)”, “pointless”, “beside the point” – udsagn der kommenterede udsigten i mere eller mindre abstrakt forstand. Vinduet er en 2-dimentionel flade, der deler de to rum “indenfor” og “udenfor”, der begge kan betegnes som kontor-landskaber. “Indenfor” og “udenfor” betegner i dette tilfælde også “arbejdstid” og “ens egen tid”. Plateauet var skudt ind som et sted at opholde sig mellem de to. Jeg lagde en pen og stillede et skilt i vinduet med en invitation til at deltage “i ind- og udsigten”. På det frie areal udenfor vinduet, skrev jeg bl.a. “derudaf” (pil), og “kilometer ialt” (med pile til parkeringpladsen overfor), så man måske kunne drømme om hvor langt man kunne nå, hvis man lagde alle bilernes kørte kilometer sammen.

Title: Office Landscapes 2003
Material: Plateau built of board and a green carpet.
White paint on the window, chalk on the field outside.

The installation was made as part of the exhibition “The exotic everyday-life” which took place in an office building for The Danish Telecom TDC. In an empty office I installed a plateau in the same hight as the window. On the window I wrote things like “Faraway”, “you are here”, “point of no return”, “beside the point” words to comment on the view, or that the window is a 2dimentional flat dividing the spaces “outside” and “inside”, “work” and “your own time”. I put up a sign and a pen with an invitation to the employees to participate in the writing on the window (which many actually did!). On the field in view from the window, I wrote things like “Rip along” and “kilometre in all” pointing towards the parking lot that belonged to the neighbour officebuilding, maybe to dream of how far a distance the cars had driven all together andhow far away that would take you.